Christopher Moore's History News

History (mostly Canadian), a little politics (ditto), and the Tour de France in July.

Friday, May 22, 2026

History of Maple Syrup

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In the Globe and Mail , Maura Forrest reports on how the mayor of Plessisville, QC. (pop. 9000), the until now undisputed " Capitale mo...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

The DCB on Herbert Molson

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The new Dictionary of Canadian Biography entry on Herbert Molson (1875-1938)  is a blockbuster, worth reading even if you have no interest...
Monday, May 11, 2026

History of bootin' 'em out

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The Guardian publishes a story about a process that is fairly routine in parliamentary governments all over the world:  an unpopular party l...

Book Notes: Jill Lepore on constitutional amendments.

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 "It is intended to be amended," is the epigraph that starts Jill Lepore's We The People , a history of the U.S. constitution ...
Friday, May 08, 2026

Book Notes: Carleton and Sinclair on Residential School Denialism

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University of Manitoba Press announces a forthcoming title for September 2026: Truth before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School D...
Thursday, May 07, 2026

History of Governors General

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I hope Louise Arbour will be an ornament to the office of Governor General.  She is almost eighty, but like a lot of senior judges she seems...
Friday, May 01, 2026

HIstory of MPs' privileges.

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For those who like fine details of constitutional law, or parliamentary history minutiae, Emmett Macfarlane's Substack discussing the re...

Obscure historical research question about New France

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I'm still reading Louise Dechêne's People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada, which I mentioned earlier . I read it i...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

New Map of North America -- (Greg Curnoe 1972)

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History of empowering MPs

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Aaron Wherry, politics columnist at CBC News, has just published a very calm demolition of the Conservative Party's efforts to delegitim...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Worth Reading: Jean-François Nadeau on secularism

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On his Substack, Paul Wells reprints in translation   Jean-François Nadeau's recent column on Quebec's secularism law, currently at...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Book Notes: Ghosts of Ortona

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I have not read this, but it sounds like an interesting take on military history by an anthropologist  -- a history of what people don't...

History of voting, of accountability, of the conventions of the parliamentary system

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This op-ed about electoral corruption in Alberta, by Rachel Notley, former NDP premier of Alberta, is worth reading  (gift link) and very di...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Book Notes: Greer on Rum in the Seaboard Review

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In these days of the dwindling of book reviews and publications that run them, it's worth noting a newish (two years) review dedicated t...
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